My Virtual Immortal Girlfriend Came to Life from a Mobile Game

That's right, this intense feeling wasn't an illusion.

It even made Chen Huaian unable to control his guilty hands.

He grabbed the set of silver needles.

Glancing at the old man next to him, a sinister smile crept onto his lips. It was a mix of three parts unruliness, three parts sleaziness, three parts arrogance, three parts nonchalance, and 88 parts impatience.

Then he opened the needle case.

Inside lay 36 silver needles. As his fingers brushed over the needle tips, a familiar sensation surged through his heart, as if he were touching his girlfriend's fingers.

"Sorry about this!"

Chen Huaian silently clasped his hands in apology to the old man beside him.

Then he picked up a silver needle.

With a swift motion, he stabbed it into his own leg.

Using a silver needle that someone else had used to stab his own leg.

Wasn't this a kind of betrayal for the silver needle?

This was his deep apology to the old man and the needle!

As for why he didn't stab the old man?

Was he crazy? He was just driven by a feeling and interest; he wouldn't irresponsibly stab someone else. But stabbing himself carried no psychological burden. After all, he was dying soon and dared to try anything on himself.

His gaze fell on his leg, and acupoint pathways appeared before his eyes, vaguely overlapping with the acupoint array diagram in the game. His fingers moved like lightning, the needles flowing like clouds and water, and in the blink of an eye, 36 needle tips were already embedded in his right leg.

Chen Huaian took a deep breath and held it.

Next, he adjusted the depth of each needle, twisting the ends to stimulate the acupoints on his leg. His hands, which usually trembled even when holding a bottle of water, were now steady and frightening.

After a while, the needling was complete.

Chen Huaian returned the silver needles to their case and put them back in place.

That tingling little feeling was finally gone.

"Ah, that's better." He rubbed his hands together, satisfied.

The fracture was in his right leg, and that's where he had needled.

At this moment, the bruising on his leg had mostly subsided, though the bone was still twisted. But the fracture itself wasn't the main issue; the key was whether the tissue bruising caused by the fracture could be treated. Relieving the bruising was naturally very important.

In less than ten minutes of needling, he had alleviated the bruising that would have required medication or surgery.

Even Chen Huaian found it unbelievable.

Was this game really so hardcore?

Could you actually learn something from it?

But surely not everyone could understand it. Who could, like him, remember the needling method and acupoint array after just one try?

But he didn't have such a good memory before.

Something was off...

Chen Huaian pondered for a moment, then suddenly brightened up, clapping his hands together: "I see, I get it, hahaha!"

Outside the ward, Doctor Wu and Doctor Zhang were approaching, still discussing Chen Huaian's case.

"This young man is a college student, with no history of mental illness. Are you sure there's something wrong with his brain?" Wu Bin had already reviewed Chen Huaian's file and questioned Doctor Zhang's judgment.

"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! It's cancer, the mysterious cancer cells have activated my Gene Lock! I'm a genius!"

A strange laugh, suppressed, came from Chen Huaian inside the ward.

"See~" Doctor Zhang spread his hands and tilted his head toward the ward.

Wu Bin: "..."

It seemed this young man might have been slightly affected after climbing Mount Tai and seeing a mirage, and indeed needed medical intervention.

"Young man..." Wu Bin entered the ward.

"Doctor, I'm not sick. I want to be discharged, or do you have a power bank here? If you have a power bank, I'll stay a bit longer."

"..." Wu Bin looked at the young man on the hospital bed, his face serious, wondering if they needed to increase the dosage.

Doctor Zhang, on the other hand, noticed Chen Huaian's leg and was stunned: "Hey? How did your leg get better?"

He remembered clearly that when he went to find Wu Bin, Chen Huaian's fractured calf was still swollen, the most severe part even turning black, nearing the point of necrosis if untreated.

But now, the fracture site was only slightly red and swollen, and the bruising was completely gone.

Chen Huaian noticed the doctor's gaze and sheepishly pulled back his foot, chuckling:

"I've been tough since I was a kid, with a bit of a natural gift for self-recovery."

He couldn't possibly say the bruising was resolved with the secret Golden Needle technique; they wouldn't believe him, and it would only bring trouble.

As for demonstrating the needling to the doctors, that was out of the question.

The old man next to him was indeed a great guinea pig, but he might be taken to a psychiatric ward before he could even start, and besides, he wasn't confident.

Just because it worked on himself didn't mean it would work on others.

In today's society, you have to think twice before helping someone cross the street, let alone using needles on someone.

Doctor Zhang couldn't figure it out after thinking for a long time.

He could only say that for now, seeing that the osteosarcoma on Chen Huaian's foot hadn't disappeared, if it had, he would really have to find a way to keep Chen Huaian and report the matter to his superiors.

"Young man, you need to find a way to treat this cancer. If you just leave it, it might not end well..."

"I understand, but I have no money," Chen Huaian smiled.

"Haven't you bought insurance?"

"No."

"What about your parents?"

"Gone."

"...sigh." Doctor Zhang fell silent after a few questions.

As a chief physician with decades of experience, he had seen many cases like Chen Huaian's, with nothing left, just waiting to die.

But there were very few who were genuinely indifferent like Chen Huaian.

"Doctor, I know my situation. I don't have extra money. Just treat it as a normal fracture."

Doctor Zhang nodded and still mentioned, "If you need to raise funds, you can let me know. Maybe I can help a bit."

"Thank you. If I can earn money, I'll definitely treat my illness properly."

While Chen Huaian was talking with Doctor Zhang, Wu Bin was observing.

He found that this young man was clear-headed, with bright eyes, and didn't have any mental issues. At most, he was just a bit adolescently delusional.

...Almost made them use a tranquilizer gun.

A false alarm.@@novelbin@@

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Chen Huaian stayed in the hospital until the afternoon.

He had surgery on his fractured right leg, which was now in a plaster cast.

According to the doctor, it was best to stay for observation, but he refused due to lack of money. Before leaving, he bought a set of silver needles from the pharmacy next to the hospital.

"Power bank! Power bank!!!"

Leaving the hospital, Chen Huaian was like a starving wolf, his green eyes scanning the surrounding shops.

He needed a power bank!

He hadn't been in the game all afternoon, and if Li Qingran was attacked by a demonic beast again, he'd be devastated.

Moreover, he'd invested nearly sixty thousand into it. If his character was gone, he'd be so angry he'd jump from the second floor of the hospital.

"Let go of that power bank!!!"

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In the terrified gaze of a female student,

Chen Huaian, hobbling on crutches, swiftly snatched the last power bank from the restaurant's charging station.

He turned it on and logged into the game.

Breathing a sigh of relief.

Li Qingran was still safely unconscious in the Mystic Armor Array.

With a power bank in his mouth, one hand on a crutch, and the other holding his phone,

he sat down at a table in the restaurant under the bewildered gaze of the female student: "Boss, three portions of dry noodles."

"Alright! Want a fried egg with that?"

"No, but I want soup!"

Boss: "Got it~"

A fried egg was three bucks! Not eating it!

Soup was free, so he could have it!

Leaving Li Qingran's unconscious state aside for now,

he opened the Lucky Koi lottery pool.

He was still 500 draws away from the guaranteed prize.

"Tsk, I don't have the luck of The Lucky One."

Chen Huaian snorted coldly, and as the EasyPay deduction notification appeared,

his finger tapped on the lottery.

Straight in, all in!